Jonathan Ross's statement make me billious in his attempt to absolve himself from it all and to claim ignorance.
Some parts of his statement,
He was
'genuinely unaware of their conduct'. Meaning Walliams and Brand. Anybody who has to use the word 'genuinely', doth protest too much.
He was
'as horrified by the revelations about David Walliams and the crimes of Russell Brand as the rest of the nation'.
About his presenting the Comedy Awards,
“the tasteless joke that I would not dream of making today about anyone” was submitted to him by the Comedy Awards writing team at the time. It was tasteless then, it is tasteless now, so what has changed exactly in his thinking?
Sometimes these so called 'celebrities' have to take accountability. When you hang out with friends such as Brand. Walliams and Ross there has to be a certain amount of nudge, nudge, wink, wink, or what would they have to talk about. If they were so loose, crude, tasteless, mysogenistic, vulgar and offensive in their actions and words on screen, cannot imagine they would not be worse off it.